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Preflights 
Copying tables out of Word and into Excel is soul-crushing and error-prone. ChestnutTable turns Word (.docx) tables into clean Excel data with a simple upload flow and batch runs. It solves the “my data is stuck in a document” problem so you can sort, filter, and analyze without rebuilding tables by hand.
Word tables are where data goes to die
Everyone loves “structured data”. Then they email you a .docx.
That’s when the pain starts: you click into a Word table, try to copy/paste, lose columns, break rows, and ship an Excel sheet full of silent mistakes.
ChestnutTable exists for that exact mess.
It takes tables trapped in Word and gets them into Excel so you can do real work again - filters, pivots, checks, imports, reporting.
The two-step trick that saves you
Most converters guess your column names from whatever junk they see first.
ChestnutTable flips it.
Step 1: Upload the empty table
You upload a blank version of the Word table first (the template before anyone filled it in). ChestnutTable reads the structure and locks in the fields.
Step 2: Upload the filled tables
Then you upload the non-empty docs in bulk. The tool maps every row into the right columns and outputs Excel-ready data.
Why does this matter?
Because templates stay stable. People don’t.
One person adds a line break. Another merges a cell. Someone pastes in a weird bullet list. Your “simple copy/paste” turns into an afternoon of cleanup.
Built for batch work, not one-off demos
You don’t have one Word file. You have fifty.
ChestnutTable leans into batch processing so you can process piles of documents instead of treating every .docx like a special snowflake.
What you get:
- Faster extraction with fewer manual fixes
- A repeatable workflow that starts with the template
- Output you can actually use in Excel for analysis and bulk ops
Who uses this (and why they stick)
If your team lives in Word because “that’s how it’s always been”. you’re the target.
- Ops teams pulling order forms into spreadsheets
- Researchers collecting survey tables
- Analysts consolidating reports across departments
- Anyone migrating legacy docs into a dataset
The pitch is simple: stop retyping. Stop gambling on copy/paste. Get the table out, clean, and move on.
If you already have the empty template, you’re one upload away from sanity.